My Favorite Quotes in 2009

“Forgiveness has nothing to do with the perpetrator. It has nothing to do with any religion. It has only everything to do with the way the victim is empowering himself or herself and taking back their life.” - Eva Mozes Kor

"We have a whole life to live together, you fucker, but it can't start until you call." - from Me and You and Everyone We Know



"It takes two to tango, only one to sin." - from Sam Kinison's "Mississippi Queen"

"The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and screaming.” - Roseanne Barr

"Mountain. / Peaks pierce the green sky, unblunted. / The sky would fall / but for the columns of mountains." - poem by Mao Zedong

"A man would rather have another man's jealousy than another man's respect." - from Sex and Death 101

"When the owl cries, the indian dies." - ancient Mexican saying

"Love does not divide, it multiplies." - Robert Heinlein

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The kindest words are often spoken; never heard." - from Ben Folds' "The Last Polka"



"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves." - Lynn Hall

"Existence precedes and rules essence." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"We could plan a murder or start a religion." - Jim Morrison, from "Angels and Sailors"

"Being humble is so 2007." - Erykah Badu